Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A perennial plant (Campanula rotundifolia) having slender stems, dense clusters of basal leaves, and bell-shaped blue or white flowers. Also called bluebell.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A species of bell-flower, Campanula rotundifolia, the well-known bluebell of Scotland. It is a low herb with delicate, drooping, blue, bell-shaped flowers, and linear-lanceolate stem-leaves, those near the root being round-heart-shaped or ovate, but early disappearing, so as rarely to be seen with the flowers. It is common to both Europe and North America. The name is sometimes erroneously written hairbell; Lindley endeavored to restrict that spelling to this plant, reserving the spelling harebell for the Scilla nutans (def. 2).
- n. The wild hyacinth, Scilla nutans, or Hyacinthus non-scriptus.
Wiktionary
- n. A perennial flowering plant, Campanula rotundifolia, native to the Northern Hemisphere, with blue, bell-like flowers.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also
bluebell .
WordNet 3.0
- n. sometimes placed in genus Scilla
- n. perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers
Examples
“a kind of harebell more potent than penicillin, growing leaf by leaf, skin by skin. as rapt and as fluid as Isadoran Duncan.”
“Species to be reintroduced include the harebell (Campanula rotundifolia), oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) and sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica).”
“The sky is streaked a harebell blue bordered by textual lines of lead-grey clouds around panes of pale amber.”
“Nevertheless, the “debate” of whether to have two working parents or one caregiver is one that will likely never be answered satisfactorily. harebell Says:”
It Isn’t A “Debate”. It’s A Choice. « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
“We are not responsible for what happens outside the sovereign borders of Canada. harebell Says:”
The Real Question Is, How Many Of These Protesters Are On Welfare? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
“As Raphael said, you seem to be reading in a different language. harebell Says:”
The Schadenfreude Of The Left On Afghanistan « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
““Did the harebell loose her girdle …” would a sea of dashingly beautiful prefab/modular homes still be “beautiful”?”
“Canalis, an adventure of this kind is swept away like a harebell by”
“There were wild – flowers to pluck — the bright red poppy, the gentle harebell, the cowslip, and the rose.”
“On this tundra knoll above the gray cold river are the first flowers of the arctic spring, a large gold-yellow cinquefoil and a harebell of deep midnight blue, grown close together in the moss and tight low heather as if keeping each other company against the elements.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘harebell’.
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Love Across Kingdoms
Appendix of sorts to AIC, listing plants named with reference to animals and vice versa.
duck potato, hog plum, sorrel mare, horse aloe, horse chestnut, banana slug, tiger lily, buffalo grass, tuna fruit, monkey puzzle, bull kelp, hawkweed and 133 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Bells and Whistles
Liberty Bell, Belle and Sebastian, Whistler's Mother, whistle stop, pennywhistle, whistle pig, wolf whistle, wet your whistle, barbell, bell jar, Bell's palsy, bell pepper and 138 more...
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Flora
Flowers and plants have some of the most beautiful names.
These are often the common names, as opposed to the scientific or botanical names.daffodil, gardenia, tulip, snapdragon, violet, orchid, bleeding heart, daisy, lily, lilac, narcissus, rose and 278 more...
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The Organism Orchestra
List of organism names, common or scientific, with a musical instrument as part of the name, such as banjofish, or words and phrases such as birdsong or dawn chorus that suggest music produced by a...
banjofish, birdsong, dawn chorus, fiddler crab, piano fangblenny, trumpeter swan, banjo catfish, harp seal, songbird, guitarfish, cornetfish, flutefish and 53 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (H)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
haberdashery, hailstone, halcyon, halibut, halo, hamadryad, hammock, harangue, harbour, harebell, harlequin, harp and 104 more...
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Like True Newfoundlanders
A place for me to store my Newfoundland English, as I learn it. (Might take a while.)
screech-in, screech, moose milk, bucklish, buckly, buckaloon, buccaloon, newfoundland sock, rum runner, scravel, newfoundland, oonchook and 112 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Lowry
nutant, meed, donga, mephitic, punk, caliginous, cauchemar, horripilation, hyacinthine, corposant, counterscarp, garboon and 65 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for harebell.
knitandpurl "With the other children, I would run off and play among the harebells along the old sentry path. A mass of rubble, really, but the pillar of my enchanted world."
The Last Rendezvous by Anne Plantagenet, translated by Willard Wood, p 17 Jun 5, 2010
yarb Citation on donga. Jul 30, 2008
chained_bear "This was the very center of the island—a land of bottomless ponds and rushing black brooks, barrens and bog that stretched away . . . like blankets of Scottish tweed. Here, the pine and spruce stands were a dark, majestic green and seemed to go on forever. The fireweed was like purple smoke in the distance. The soft forest floors were thick with lady ferns and harebells and bunchberries and pink tops. The air was sweet with bog rosemary and cranberry patches and Labrador tea."
—David Macfarlane, The Danger Tree, 48 May 6, 2008